NDLEA arrests 61-year-old female Lagos socialite, drug kingpin

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Further investigations led to the arrest of four members of three syndicates involved in the racket.

The arrested suspects are Sodade Sunday Eniola; Ayinde Saheed Awwal; Salaudeen Afeez Ayode; and Sheriff Adebayo Bamigbade.

Both the exhibits and the suspects were on Monday December 30, 2024 handed over to the Zonal Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service in Lagos for further investigation and possible prosecution.

Not less than 316,800 bottles of codeine-based syrup were recovered from two containers by the NDLEA officers at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne Rivers State during a joint examination of the shipments with men of Nigeria Customs and other security agencies on Tuesday December 31, 2024.

The seizure followed credible intelligence processed by the Port Harcourt Port Command of the agency.

In Kano, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday December 31, 2024 raided Mafarki, Dan Dishe area of Dala Local Government where they recovered 149,090 pills of tramadol and exol-5 from a local dealer, 45-year-old Ismail Muhammad.

The NDLEA said with the same vigour, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization activities in schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.

Areas touched with the WADA sensitisation lecture were listed to include Ido-Osi Central Market, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State; and Muslim faithful during their Juma’at prayer at Birnin Kudu Central Mosque, Jigawa State.

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), commended the officers and men of MMIA, Lagos, Kano, PHPC and Kwara Commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures.

He stated that their operational successes and those of their compatriots across the country especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts were well appreciated.